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TUESDAY, MARCH 24,- 1959.
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THE LEADER TO 79 COUNTRIES
CHINESE PLANE LEAVES LHASA FOR UNKOWN DESTINATION Dramatic
Of The DALAI LAMA KIDNAPPED? Pothole
Day
PUBLICISING
HONGKONG
Na notable maiden speech
to
IN
the. Legislative
Council, Mr H.D.M. Harton called for "urgent steps to ensure that a steady flow of accurate information on all our economic, social and i industrial problems mate
available
in
countries such as the UK) and USA." The quation of pubileising Hongkong lity been a good talking point
for my mouths. Early Inst year. when the Lancashire outery against Hongkong textile exports was at its highest, the local chamber
commerce
*on-
Free
Announced
useful IL nection with the Trade and Cobden Club! in London and a lending corresponding member,
with London papers, didľ valuable service for Hong- !
• kong.
Hong-
At about the same time the
Mail China
urged the establishment of kong Commission, hended by Sir Alexander Grantham In London, whose job would be to publlelse various
aspects of the
Colony. We also urged the' Public Relations Office to produce a monthly airmail- weight newsletter for over- Rens distribution.
Outery Subsides
PART from the forTRA- of A Hongkong
A tion
Association in London. composed largely of retired local
businessmen aud former residents, the best the means of publicising Colony have not yet been established. And Mr
Barton's comments under- line the need for something. Boon. Today our immediate target for public relations work should be the United States, for it la from this direction that a new threat of
restrictions import
exists. In Britain, the out- cry against Hongkong has subsided,
A permanent Hongkong public
relations group in Britain
Wires Between
Tibet And
India Cut
New Delhi, March 23. Rumours that the Dalai Lama, Supreme Buddhist religious leader, had been carried off by Chinese authorities were rife here tonight, after an informed source reported that a Chinese plane left Lhasa, Tibet, today for an unknown destination.
Jaywalkers Fined $10
A group of 25
people,
six women and 10 тел Cach received fines of $10 when they pleaded guilty to Jay-walking before Mr B. V. Rhodes at Kowloon Court this morning.
The defendants, who were dealt with en bloc, were all arrealed yesterday at the Junction of Nathan Raud and Shantung Street, Their ages ranged between 18 to 48. They were all on bail of $25.
MEN SEIZED
FOR PUZZLE
SWINDLE
Washington, March 23, Twelve men were arrested
by Federal Bureau
In-
I had been expected that the Dalai Lama might be taken off to Peking following reperts here last week that he had been sum- moned to appear without his usual
guard before Chinese authorities.
Touched Off
These reports were raid to have touched off the demonstra- Unns outside the Indian Con- sulate-General in Lhasa Jast
week
Meanwhile, the Indian Communications Director- General announced today that radio-telephone com munications with Lhaan had been interrupted, and that ne telegrams would be accepted for Liasa "until further
notice,"
confirmed re-
His statement ports that telegraphic contact with Lasa had been broken.
The only general link between Lhorn and the outside world- with the exception of a line to Peking had been the tele- graphic communications between Lhasa and New Delhi.
Now the only remaining the between Tibet and the outside
Grivas Returns To Big Welcome
Siamese Twins
Joined At
The Skull
Successfully Separated
London, March 23:
world is the radio of the Indian | Ten-month-old male Siamese Consul-General in Lhasa,
Repercussions
. Hundreds
Tibetans, of Including high officials and lomos, met this afternoon ul Kalimpong and passed a resolu- tion requesting the government of Iulia to mediate in the
twins, joined together at the top of the skull, have been successfully sepa- rated" in an operation, the governors of St Bartho- lomew's Hospital here announced tonight..
vestigation agents today uprising. They said the Tibetans Their statement added; "Both
In a nation-wide crack-felt they were more closely down an a swindle in- connected with the Indians than volving newspaper puzzle with any others.
A 19-member deputation of contests.
larias Tibetan officials and will meet the Indian political officer at Gantok tomorrow, to warn against serious repercus- sions If there was no mediation immediately. The deputation may go
and America stalled by Director J. Edgar Haaver sid public servants would be a the men, arrested in raids from waste of money. Hongkong Florida to Oregon, were picked of conspiring to enanot
expect to stay in the up on charges
violate Federal laws against all the public eye
to
are clive, but their condition will remain extremely critical for several dayo."
Triplets
The Siamese twins are Timothy and Jeremy Thackeray, who were born joined together at the top of the skull.
What we need therefore is raud by mail, wire or telegraph. | New Delhi to see Indian Pre-Kathleen Thackeray, wife
time.
a mobile public relations
team moving from country
to country, to reply to out-
eries against Hongkong as they develop.
T have
He said two Canadians also mic, Jawaharlal Nehru, It no satisfactory reply was received were involved in the racket.
"He; Fald" in 131 investigation from the political-zuloer showed that answers to puzzle France-Prowe.
cuntests prepared by two New
York sity dans Superior.
They were two of triplets born in May last year to Mrs of a bank manager in Hendon, north London,
The third baby is no
is normal and at home with the parents.
A month ago, a statement
were progressing well but had only a "light chance" of sur viving a separation operation- Reuter.
Just a few weeks ago; апуста
close enough to Grivas to take. these pictures could have #arned themselves
quick £10,000-the price put on his hoad by Britain's security forces in Cyprus,
But now that this asporing off In tha knickerbockers and kipped up swestor is in the
open again he seems to like the look of a camera, getting up and posing with relat With polish, too, he tells him j story of posing as a Britich
Army officer and staying in Nicosia's Press hangout, tho Lodra Palace Hotel; of shaking Hands with the one-time Governor, Finid Marshal Bir Jahn Harding, disguised a Turkish bogger; Df nearly getting caught when driven mad by toothache, he went into Nicosia to see a dentist. Last Tuesday he had monster welcome at Athena airport, the government, the Greek armad
forass, the people ait turned out to welcome home, a new national haro-Reuterpkota. ·
Summit Talks On A
U.S. Bank Sets
Up HK Branch
San Francisco, March 23. Bank of America (inter- national), a wholly-owned sub sidiary of Bank of America with home offices in San Fran- cisco, today
arshouneed opening of a new branch Hongkong:
COOTER Curran, President and Bank's
Rescue Attempt
Castleton, March 24. A diminutive 18-year-old girl descended Into the murky depths of the "Devil's Hole" carly today to try to save the life of young university student who has been trapped underground for more than 33 hours.
а
June Bailey, who is five feet tall and weighs only 98 pounds, volunteered for the job
whori
an urgent call was sent out for *The
Smallest Potholer
North England."
His Breathing
15.
Trapped 1,000 feet under- ground
was 20-year-old
Moss, who
Neil
has been un conscious since early this morn- ing in his tiny prison deep in
the cavern.
олоод
officials reported lato tonight that Moss'u
breathing hud, become irregu- lar, and most of the cave- wise explorern, amiting In the rescue
operation feared he would not pul through his ordeal alive.
Moss, a six-foot three-inch student at Oxford University, beente trapped In a tiny vertical shaft in the cave on Sunday afternoon. He was wedged in se lightly that he could not move his arms to rench the food that was dropped down to him.
giri
Miss Bailey, 功 Manchester whose hobby is cave- the exploring, was nearby on
In practice rescue mission, when
she heard of the urgent call Vice for a small potholer to go head of the down into the "Devil's Hole."- Far East operations, U.P.I. said the branch
was being
established "because of Hung U.S. Conscription
kong's increasing Importance as a world trade and manufactur- ing centre, and as a Far Eastern money market."
Manager of the new branch Is Edward De Jong, veteran of 13 years of international bank ing in the Far East.-U.P.I.
Washington, March 29... President Eisenhower today the conscription act for four signed into law a bill extending years until July 1, 1983. The net provides for two years' milltary service.-Reuter.
Golf Course? Sheikhs Order The Bed
Washington, March 23..
Although Geneva is still the leading contender, there was talk in high diplomatie quarters that the palatial hotel and golf course at Gleneagles, Scotland, might be a better site for the projected East-West summit talks this summer.
To End All Beds
Birmingham, March 23.
The maker of a bed to end all beda sald today two of them been sold to Middle Eastern sheikhs—but the, firss one goes to a Frenchman, D.V. Blias, export sales director of a bed company, sald bis firm's little couch comes equipped with a television
Bath President Elsenhower, mut Mr. Khrushchev and Mr and Mr Harold Macmillan are Nikolai Bulganin, then the So- own to be anxious to secure vlot Premier, at the summit as much secrecy as possible for conference of 1055radio-set, a phonography negotiations with Mr→NTA Khrushchev on
crisis.
the European
Two-man Team Feature Treaty Proposed from the hospital sold the wins Glonasse Hotel nepe Perth feeling here is that to face it
TODAY there is not much Features Syndicate were cb- of getting Sir teined in advance and were used to win more than $45,000 in Alexander Grantham to actrizes from last November to as a regular spokesman for February of this year.-L.P.I. the Colony. He has business commitments
which would prevent him Antarctica
doing so.
be
another prominent former resident who could do this work, but people here fool that a man fully conversant with local conditions und preferably one still living. in the Colony would be the best bet.
Is A
Continent
Washington, March 23,
Kuala Lumpur, March 23.
Philippines Malaya and the will discuss first steps toward a proposed Southeast Asin friend- ship and economic treaty, in-
formed sources sald here today. Mount Etna Comes
Mr Feilxiberto Serrano, Philippines Secretary of Foreign Afairs, will meet Dr. Isma!! Bin Dato Abdul Rahman, Malayan Minister for External Affairs, in Kuala Lumpur on. April 3 Reuter.
Lost Its Bid
Lusaka, March 23. Northern Rhodesia's powerful
To Life Again
Whether or not the atmos- phere at Geneva In 1955 con- tributed to that fallure, the is one of Britain's kcoding again would be a bad mistake. luxury hotels.
Meanwhile Mr Macmillon paid Now run by British Railways, a 30-minute farewell visit to It has about 200, rooms, spacious Freldent Eisenhower at grounds, and one of the best White House today. known golf courses in Scotland.
Misgivings
the
Macmillan fold newsmen after their mecting "I came to say goodbye to the President and to thank him for a very good time The format atmosphere of and the best conference we ever the large conference room at had in the most enjoyable sur- Catania, March 23.
the United Nations' European,roundings."-Reuter and France- Mount Etna, Europe's tallest headquarters in
Geneva is not Presse. and most active volcano, came, liked and the glare of publicity to life again today.
which it encourages is viewed i The eruption sent masses of with misgivings. pebbles high in the sky. A few explosions were heard. Catania's Volcanology
In-
Since it would be unreason= |Two United States scientists | United Federal Purly has all stitute said there was no dan-
able to nuk a public servant
to become involved in any political Imbroglios. particularly in the United Kingdom, Government can- not handle it alone. public relations team should therefore-consist of one leading local business-
Dur
disclosed today, that the but last its bid for unchallenged ger to the population in vllinges Russians have como across control of this British protec-at the foot of Mount Etna
UP.I. the first definito evidenco ferate's legislature. that a continental land
M
Macmillan definitely
does not look forward to the | prospect of negotiating in a "central hall
The ideal, "as far as the British and the Unlied States lenders are concerned, would. be a secluded spot, ruch
Hussein In U.S. Camp David or Gleneagles.
Returns st trickling in from mass exists beneath. Ant-Friday's general election nar- rowed the gap of SIIH + arctica's ice expanse. decided seats to three, exactly
Washington, March 23, the number the United King Hussein of Jordan Federalisis would have to win arrived here today by plane to for a 16-seat hold on the 30-seat begin a five-day unofficial visit.
-France-Presse, legislature, U.P.I.
man and a senior member Morton Kubin of
Dr Harry Wexler and
press
Mir the United
conference that the evidence was found in the
of the staff of the PRO's States Weather Bureau, told a
office, the businessman to
do all the talking and castern section of the five and a
appearing on TV, the PRO half
stoff man to supply facts expanse
million square milo
Lection where the
and figures, write news- Soviet Union alone have Inland paper articles and adviac. bases.
This team could additionally
take films of Hongkong (if
they
are
available)
Both scientists were working
for on the American Antarctic Pro tourist promotion, and to gramme for the International
Geophysical Year,
Dr Wexler said the positive evidence of a land mriors had
publicise social welfare work to widen the interest abroad in the work the been found by the Russians in Colony Is dohig. A three- the course of a long trek made month tour. in Amerles in the second half of last year, Inter this year should be to the "Polo of Intecesibility.". our first alm,
Reuter,
#1
Students Stop Going To China
Kuala Lumpur, March 23. Malayon Chinese
students have virtually stopped going to Ai pecond reason why the Chino, an Immigration spokes- West might suggest another man fald today, site in tjuf Genova is associated with the fallure of the Allied leaders to reach agreement on the German, problem when they
PHONE BOOTH 'SQUASH' RECORD!
Wellington, March 29. Midday lunch crowds watch- ed today as 20 university studenta erammed fato a telephone booth in the heart of Dunedin.city. to claim the world "squash" record from London Uni- varalty."
Students around the worldmined a world record have joined the telephone]; claimed by 32 San: Fran- booth craze over the past
claco students during the fow weeks. Eighteen
weekend, pointing out the London University ĭatud, enis claimed the world're
American booth was on cord last week.
Iis wide and without a The New Zealand, stustentsi telephone China Mail
today disdainfully dia-' ! Special:
|
no
He said there were also applications to return to Malaya. Most of the students went to China before, Malaya' became Independent' În August,." 1957., The exodus began to dle down after that.-Router.,
War Widows Benefit
London, March 20 British war widows aged 70 and over arq to get an extra 108 A week added · to) their: co-shilling pension, the Minister of Pensions told the House of Commons here today. ||About 55,000 widows will be ffected: Most of the widows. lost their husbands in the 1914-18- wár.--liqufor.
adjustablo maitresses
ink bedspreada,
It sells for £2,500. The first of the beds will be
shipped tomOITOWE
to Henri Gross, a Paris furniture store owner, who bought it for his wife, Bliss said the Sheikha of Bahrein and Qatar in the Middle East also bought beds. complain with every accessory the bed boasts
except the
and "Maybe they have already got
those," Bil mid.-U.P.L
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